’)Some people just stay the same.
The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight — asking an aide to President Nixon whether there was a White House taping system — he telephoned Nixon’s lawyer.
Thompson tipped off the White House that the committee knew about the taping system and would be making the information public. In his all-but-forgotten Watergate memoir, “At That Point in Time,” Thompson said he acted with “no authority” in divulging the committee’s knowledge of the tapes, which provided the evidence that led to Nixon’s resignation. It was one of many Thompson leaks to the Nixon team, according to a former investigator for Democrats on the committee, Scott Armstrong , who remains upset at Thompson’s actions.
“Thompson was a mole for the White House,” Armstrong said in an interview. “Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was.”
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Just as Thompson once staunchly defended Nixon, Thompson urged a pardon for Libby, who was convicted in March of obstructing justice in the investigation into who leaked a CIA operative’s name.
Richard Nixon was a crook in the White House, Hollywood actor Fred Thompson wants to be a crook-defender in the White House.
Just to pick nits, Fred Thompson was more of a mole. Scooter Libby, on the other hand threatened to rat out Rove and Cheney by saying he was set up by the White House in his opening defense statement, but Bush got the message and paid that rat off by commuting his sentence.
Anyway, just goes to show what kind of character Thompson’s got that he’d tip the White House off. Cowardly scumbags, all of them.
Thompson PLAYS a character.
Got none of his own.
My neo-con father is convinced that Fred Thompson is the great Republican savior, and I’m gathering that his buddies in the local branch of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy — some of whom have connections — agree with that statement.
Bye bye Hollywood Fred. it’s over for ya.
Like the belt buckle says, “Rats get fat while good men die.”
I ain’t no mole!
I’m tough on crime!
Ain’t you seen me on TeeVee?
Damned Librul Hippies!
On the plus side for Thompson: selling out the American people to help Richard Nixon probably won’t hurt him with the GOP base.
Honestly, I don’t see too many voters — especially GOP primary voters — giving a shit about this. I hope I’m wrong, but I nowadays just assume they don’t give a damn about anything actually relevant. There’s no obscure fonts or interns or malaprops here, move along.
Well, if an attorney working to defend his client is cause for accusations of criminal behavior, then someone should start investigating Robert Bennett, pronto.
You guys are really grasping at straws here.
Well, if an attorney working to defend his client is cause for accusations of criminal behavior,
“Working to defend his client”?!?
No, the problem is he revealed secret investigation committee information to the people being investigated. That goes a bit beyond “working to defend his client.”
“Well, if an attorney working to defend his client is cause for accusations of criminal behavior”
Mike, that’s got to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
Thompson wasn’t an attorney, he wasn’t protecting his client. He leaked sensitive information to the subject of an investigation…
geez…
Fred Thompson admitted that he warned the Nixon White House that he had found out about the taping system in his 1975 book. This has been a matter of public record for three decades.This comes from the Boston Globe which just happens to be Mitt Romney’s current hometown paper. Hmmm, makes you wonder….
Robert, the Globe’s been trotting out one attempted hit-piece after another on Romney. They fear and loathe him with a passion. It seems every other week they put out another “Ooh, he’s a scary MORMON!!!” article.
No, they’re going after Thompson because the polls say he’s the guy to beat right now, and the Glob — owned by the New York Times — is fully invested in taking down the Republicans. The Romney angle is an interesting theory, but utterly unsupported by facts.
J.
Fortunately, now it’s getting attention that Thompson was a gutless fucking mole for the only President less popular than Bush — and that’s utterly supported by facts. Kiss ‘08 goodbye, Cons. Your Hollywood actor can’t save you from your failed, pointless, trillion dollar war; nor can he redeem you for the million Iraqis you’ve killed.
Thompson should be looking more and more promising, not only to what few “bushies” there are left, but also to democrats. Just think, another nutbag with ties both to Tricky Dick and the WPE, who is a staunch defender of Scooter Fibby to boot.
The stronger the ties of their nominee to Bush and Bush’s War, the deeper the hole the neocon party will be in for ‘08. They should be hearing Chinese before too long, if not already.
Thompson’s support for “The Pardon” is only icing on the cake that follows mindless demagoging of the immigration bill that has alienated many Hispanic Americans who once voted republican, but now see the republican party for what this current bunch has turned it into. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are probably turning over in their graves by now.
“Robert, the Globe’s been trotting out one attempted hit-piece after another on Romney. They fear and loathe him with a passion.”
Why would they? You have a better chance of making it to the White House than Romney does.
“It seems every other week they put out another “Ooh, he’s a scary MORMON!!!” article.”
I doubt that. It’s the religious right that hate his religion. That’s the reason he can’t be elected. It wouldn’t be strange to report on that fact.
“No, they’re going after Thompson because the polls say he’s the guy to beat right now”
What polls have you been reading? Thompson is way behind Rudy, and as soon as the Republican hits start happening, he will fall further.
Don’t get me wrong, I want Thompson to beat Rudy. Richardson polls favorably against Thompson and the Democrats would have little problem beating him for the White House.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15905
Strowbridge, the Globe sent two reporters to Latin America to interview a couple of (former) illegal aliens who had worked for the landscaping company that took care of Romney’s home. They’re the ones who dug the dog on the roof story out of history. And they recently ran a “The Making Of Mitt Romney” (http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/)that contained quite a few less than flattering observations. A couple of the sections:
The funny thing is, I keep hearing the talk about how Romney’s Mormonism will keep the religious right from voting for him. But the vast majority of those saying that are the left — who, I think we’ll all agree, are not usually privy to the inner thoughts of the religious right.
As far as polls go… I don’t recall the specific mentions of Thompson’s standing, but then again I’ve never given a rat’s ass about polls. I thought I heard one report that Thompson was doing fantastic, but I very well could have misheard it, as I don’t pay much attention to them as a habit. Paying too much attention to polls strikes me as too much like subsubming one’s own opinions and judgment for the collective wisdom of the masses, as molded and interpreted and spun by the pollsters.
J.
It’s not as if the right think there was anything wrong with Watergate anyway.
“They’re the ones who dug the dog on the roof story out of history.”
Romney gave that story to an interviewer, and it was described as a good thing.
So forgive me if I suspect your perspective is off on this one.
“And they recently ran a “The Making Of Mitt Romney” (http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/)that contained quite a few less than flattering observations.”
So it would be acceptable to do a story on a political figure without mentioning critics?
“The funny thing is, I keep hearing the talk about how Romney’s Mormonism will keep the religious right from voting for him. But the vast majority of those saying that are the left — who, I think we’ll all agree, are not usually privy to the inner thoughts of the religious right.”
Inner thoughts? I’ve read statements by Evangelicals calling Mormonism a cult and calling John Smith a pedophile. You don’t have to be psychic to figure out the subtle undertones of that.
And that isn’t a unique event. Plenty of times similar statements have been releases, why do you think he’s been giving the, “My faith is your faith” speech so often to right-wing audiences.
“As far as polls go… … Paying too much attention to polls strikes me as too much like subsubming one’s own opinions and judgment for the collective wisdom of the masses, as molded and interpreted and spun by the pollsters”
There’s a difference between using polls to form an opinion and using polls to predict an outcome.
Curse that Globe for not praising Romney without reservation. Fie on their editors and opinion writers for having opinions about Romney that are based on Romney’s more than ten years in Mass public life!